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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
Estimate:
€12,000 - €18,000
Sold
€16,000
Live Auction
Important Irish Art - 26 November 2018
Size
8 by 6.50in. (20.3 by 16.5cm)
Description
Title: ST. JOHN'S EVE BONFIRE NIGHT
Note: Pyle notes that Yeats and J.M. Synge were in Belmullet in County Mayo on St. John's Eve, when bonfires were lit in 1905. Examples of these scenes can be found reproduced in Life in the West of Ireland (1912, plate nos. 5 & 25 and in Pyle, Yeats, His Cartoons and Illustrations, nos. 1539 & 1549). Number 1549 Bonfire Night [Fire Play] was also in the same collection as the present lot [T.D. Henshaw, New York]. A larger work in watercolour of this scene exists (Pyle, Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, no. 600) and was described by Synge in his article on Erris for the Manchester Guardian in 1905. These works were all variously exhibited from as early as 1906 to the 1970s.
Note: Pyle notes that Yeats and J.M. Synge were in Belmullet in County Mayo on St. John's Eve, when bonfires were lit in 1905. Examples of these scenes can be found reproduced in Life in the West of Ireland (1912, plate nos. 5 & 25 and in Pyle, Yeats, His Cartoons and Illustrations, nos. 1539 & 1549). Number 1549 Bonfire Night [Fire Play] was also in the same collection as the present lot [T.D. Henshaw, New York]. A larger work in watercolour of this scene exists (Pyle, Yeats, His Watercolours, Drawings and Pastels, no. 600) and was described by Synge in his article on Erris for the Manchester Guardian in 1905. These works were all variously exhibited from as early as 1906 to the 1970s.
Medium
pen, ink and watercolour
Signature
signed lower left; with Dawson Gallery label on reverse
Provenance
Dawson Gallery, Dublin;Collection of T.D. Henshaw;Sotheby's, 13 May 2005, lot 38;Private collection
